October 2011 - Posts

Just recently I've inherited some SSIS packages that were in dire need of fixing however, as is often the case, most of my battles were with connection string configurations. It always baffles me when I see packages that don't log information that would Read More...

Once upon a time I blogged at http://consultingblogs.emc.com/jamiethomson but that ended in August 2009 when I left EMC. There is a lot of (arguably) valuable content over there however certain events in the past leave me concerned that that content is Read More...

To my mind the most interesting piece of news to come out of the recent PASS conference was the unveiling of a new SQL Azure Labs project coming from the SQL Server organisation that has the codename "Data Explorer" (not a very imaginitive codename I'm Read More...

[Disclaimer: This blog post was written in the Developer Preview timeframe and the code has since been heavily updated. Please visit my ObjectStorageHelper feed to see the most up to date information.] A heads up – this blog post has nothing to do with Read More...

This is a quick FYI. I follow a lot of blogs that are hosted on MSDN and I often leave comments on there as its a good way of providing feedback to folks within Microsoft; for example, I left a comment on Microsoft Codename “Data Explorer” Walkthrough Read More...

One of the biggest complaints I see developers raising about SSIS since it was released in 2005 is that the only way to debug Script Components is the distinctly simplistic and old fashioned method of sticking up message boxes - there is no way to step Read More...